Hans Berger

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Hans Berger (21 May 1873 – 1 June 1941) was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the brain, commonly described in terms of brainwaves, and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm which is a type of brainwave. Alpha waves have been eponymously referred to as the "Berger wave."

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Hans Berger [full inscription unknown]

English translation: Hans Berger

Mariannenstraße 34, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany where they lived